At What Age Can You Make an Important Decision?

At what age can you make an important decision. To make a real, life affecting decision, you must be 18 years of age. This applys to life and death decisions, but also to any sort of important decision. Until you are 18 years of age, you are not mature enough to vote. You cannot get married without parental permission. You can't enlist in the army. You can't serve on a jury. In fact, for the most part, you can't even be held responsible for crimes you commit. Let me repeat myself for the sake of emphasis: until you are 18 years of age, you are not qualified to make any real decision of importance for yourself. So one might wonder why a child under the age of 18 can make the decision to have an abortion without parental consent? The answer is clear; once you permit any restriction at all over abortions, you open up the possibility that in the future there will be additional restrictions. Because abortion is one of the two supreme rights in North America (running roughshod over all other rights), any sort of restriction on abortion "rights" is absolutely unacceptable and must be fought with any means available.